Looking for a quick trip for the upcoming holiday week? How about a visit to the 18th century … or a flashback to the 80's? We'll take in This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and discover a show that mirrors Chronicle's own beginning. Plus Ted Reinstein meets an important but forgotten patriot in Worcester, and discovers a place where anyone can bone up on our revolutionary history. And Shayna Seymour travels to the North Shore to learn about the history of hats.

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“This Will Have Been, Art Love and Politics in the 1980’s,” currently at the ICA, looks at a decade of social and political change.

Born in Boston in 1749, Isaiah Thomas learned the art of printing at age 7, even before he could read. He published the pro-independence “Massachusetts Spy” in what is now the Union Oyster House. On April 16, 1775, fearing the British authorities would seize his press Thomas moved it to the safe environs of Worcester. Today it resides in the American Antiquarian Society, a national library Thomas founded 200 years ago.